Healthcare Finance News March 25, 2022
Providers are not responsible for verifying the security of a patient’s third-party app, but are vulnerable when that data is sent.
The Confidentiality Coalition and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has sent a letter to the secretaries of Commerce and Health and Human Services voicing concerns about the potential misuse of patient health information by unregulated third-party applications.
The HIPAA law only goes so far to protect health information as it applies only to traditional healthcare covered entities and their business associates, the groups told HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in the March 24 letter. The groups said they are also concerned that patients will not have adequate information to be educated regarding third-party apps...
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